No reports of 'testicular swelling in Trinidad': Nicki Minaj’s claim dismissed – video

Terrence Deyalsingh, Trinidad and Tobago's health minister, has dismissed claims by the rapper Nicki Minaj that her cousin's friend had become impotent after receiving the Covid-19 vaccine. 'As we stand now, there is absolutely no reported suchside effect or adverse event of testicular swelling in Trinidad ... and none that we know of anywhere in the world,' Deyalsingh said in a press conference. Deyalsingh lamented the time health officials spent investigating the claim, saying that they 'take all these claims seriously'. Minaj prompted a global backlash with a tweet in which she claimed that a cousin's friend had become impotent after receiving the Covid-19 vaccine.

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